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...Madonna and Martha Stewart love it, as do Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Keanu Reeves and "Junk Bond King" Michael Milken, who organized a Scrabble tournament in the early 1990s at the white-collar prison where he was serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrabble | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...shine.Sophomore Corey Jantzen captured a title in his first action of the year, while junior co-captains J.P. O’Connor and Louis Caputo posted top-three finishes at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this weekend.Continuing its brutal schedule, the Crimson sent eight competitors to the annual tournament, which features some of the nation’s best talent in the Las Vegas Convention Center.Junior Andrew Knapp, sophomore Michael Sadler, and rookies Bryan Panzano, Walter Peppelman, and Sean Murphy rounded out the Harvard lineup against a field that included nine teams in the top 25 and five...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Impressive 11th Fueled by Strong Individuals | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...worthy underdogs and elevate the wrong teams to its ultimate showdown. Outrage over its capricious rankings spurred Senate hearings in 2003 and a congressional inquiry in 2005. A 2007 Gallup poll found that only 15% of fans would balk at scrapping the present format for a tidy year-end tournament. This year, that number is probably even lower in the Lone Star State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The Bowl Championship Series | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

After the first annual Beanpot tournament brought heartbreak for the men’s half of the Harvard fencing team last fall, both the men and women made good and sure the second edition of the competition brought no doubts as to who is the best squad in Beantown. The women repeated and the men won the tournament for the first time yesterday evening in Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeating MIT, Boston College, and Brandeis.The women started fast and finished strong, never winning by fewer than 13 bouts, besting MIT 22-5, BC 21-6, and Brandeis 20-7.The Crimson...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Secures Beanpot Championship | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Ideally, Saturday would have been the day that the Harvard men’s soccer team celebrated a victory in the third round of the NCAA Tournament and began its preparations for No. 1 University of Wake Forest in the quarterfinals.But No. 8 University of South Florida had other ideas for the Crimson, ending Harvard’s season last Tuesday in the second round.There was still some good news to come out of Saturday, however, as junior forward Andre Akpan was named as a semi-finalist for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious individual award in men?...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Record-Breaking Junior Rising to the Top | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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